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EU Parliament to Vote on New Patent Rules

Posted by michael on from the patent-foolishness dept.

peter_sd writes "The Register has an article discussing the implications to the open source community and small software businesses of the new software patent law to be voted on tomorrow by the EU parliament. According to the article, it is very likely the new patent law will be accepted despite its grave consequences."

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  1. Vote postponed, time to get organised by ciaran_o_riordan · · Score: 5, Informative

    Great News
    The vote has been postponed until September 1st.
    All info at:
    http://swpat.ffii.org/news/03/plen0626/index.en.ht ml

    This means we must have their attention.

    Please contact your national FreeSoftware or digital-freedom group to organise an Adopt-an-MEP campaign. If the vote did take place tomorrow, we would lose but with the help of a few concerned citizens, we will win.

    Ciaran O'Riordan

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  2. Vote was postponed to September by Balaitous · · Score: 5, Informative

    It is known since Thursday 26 June that the vote will not occur on 30 June. Despite pressure from the pro-patent UK labour rapporteur Arlene McCarthy, the conference of group presidents in the Parliament has decided that the vote in plenary will occur only in September.
    A little more time to convince Members of the European Parliament of all parties of the the common sense decision: rejecting patents for software ideas and information processing methods.